NEMO  Disco 15 Sleeping Bag - Men's

took the bag out for the first time to the ozark mountains in missouri. the weather was rainy to misty to windy. highs in the low 50s. lows in the low 30s. I have never owned a down bag because of the wet conditions I normally backpack and canoe in. this was definitely a test for the newer materials like the treated down and water resistant shells. sleeping in just shorts and t shirt it was extremely warm. I opened the therma gills and didn't cinch the hood. still I was warm until sometime in the morning. the bag is very roomy. I realized why they call it a spoon design. two people could fit in this bag. I like the closed in feeling of a mummy bag but the roominess of this bag was very comfortable. it was more like in home with a blanket than a cocoon. can't wait to test this bag with temps in the low 20s. the blanket fold seems like a nice feature however when the temps are warm it is hard to keep it out of the way. everything on this bag is quality down to the anti snag zipper design. I always have problems snagging the zipper in the middle of the night but don't see it being a problem on this bag.

Test Subject Specs: Male, 6'2", 190lbs, Cold Side-Sleeper, Experienced Camper, Combo - Insulated BA AXL pad + Nemo Switchback pad, 3 season 2 wall tent, 30deg. nighttime low - no wind, Clothing: standard cotton sweats, Russell Dri-Power long sleeve shirt, Darn Tough Merrino Wool socks. PROS: 1st and foremost - ROOMY, so VERY comfortable in shoulder/elbows and in hip/knee areas; big foot box. Easily the most spacious back country bag I've EVER used and I really, REALLY wanted to love it. Read on. 2nd - Weight/Size: Packs down very nicely and comes with it's own UL sil-nylon, 4-strap compression bag. Overall Sleeping bag weight is lighter and more compact than my normal go-to bag for Texas cold weather camping by about 8 oz. 3rd - Neck/face opening and Hood works fantastic with an inflatable pillow to provide enough depth for the pillow in the hood while still covering my head. The collar comes up just enough to allow good coverage without impeding fresh air. 4th - Soft and comfy interior material. ----------------- CONS: 1st and foremost - chilly with spotty coverage. NOT cold and not so cold that I couldn't sleep ok, but I wasn't as toasty as I would have preferred nor as comfortable as I've been in other lightweight backpacking bags (REI Magma 15 men's long). I'm a self-proclaimed cold sleeper and while this bag's "Tested Comfort" is 25deg, I recognize and agree that this is still a bit of a subjective rating. So with this in mind I hoped that it would be sufficient for this past 30degree weekend (environmental temp is 5 degrees above "Comfort" rating, I'm a cold sleeper so subtract 5 degrees comfort from environment; should be just right - 25deg bag, 25 deg adjusted environment). I did sleep and with a large "hot hands" warming pack in the foot box my feet/toes stayed just above cold, but not so much so as to be truly comfortable. 2nd - In the morning I was able to see why I had cold spots throughout the night. With the sunlight beaming on the cold tent and melting the frozen condensation and with my head buried inside the bag to improve my warmth and try to get another hour of sleep on the books I could easily see through the sleeping bag material and see that the down insulation easily shifted to concentrations within the long baffles leaving basically only the thin nylon material between me and the environment. Pawing at the insulation I was able to rearrange it within the baffles to a more unified "fill" but it easily shifted back to it's clump given a small amount of juxtaposition withing the bag. The baffles definitely need either more cross pattern seams or a more compressed baffle to help curtail insulation migration and leaving cold spots. 3rd - Fill Power is only 650. I can't help but wonder if the bag's shifting down wouldn't have been helped with a puffier down plume, adding possible warmth points but also - MAYBE - minimizing clumping/migration. Warmth to Weight ratio just wasn't there. I really wanted to love this bag; the cut and contour of the bag is AMAZING and super comfortable. I'll certainly give Nemo's spoon shaped sleeping bag another go in a future version: (a) I hope they keep the spoon shape in future versions - Game changer for those of us who sleep like a mobile home in a tornado - I'd carry a slightly heavier spoon design, it's that comfortable. (b) Hoping that they're able to bump it's FP to 850 in the next version or two. (c) Final hope is to find a way to minimize insulation migration.